# Trousdale Ventures

> Trousdale Ventures is a VC fund backing Information Technology. See 100 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, United States
- Total investments: 100
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 18%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/trousdaleventuresllc 
- Website: https://trousdalevc.com/

Trousdale Ventures is a privately held investment firm led by founder and CEO Phillip Sarofim. Its portfolio of groundbreaking companies improves quality of life by fueling advances in space and mobility, climate tech and technology-driven health and wellness. Trousdale Ventures seeks to overcome barriers in the fields of health, productivity andsustainability by democratizing wellness and accelerating innovation.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.2M–$25M |
| Series A | $9.2M–$60M |
| Series B | $21M–$150M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Information Technology | 13 | 13% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 13 | 13% |
| Software | 12 | 12% |
| Manufacturing | 11 | 11% |
| Food and Beverage | 10 | 10% |

137 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 20 | 20% |
| Seed | 19 | 19% |
| Series B | 14 | 14% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 14 | 14% |
| Pre-Seed | 8 | 8% |

11 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 76 | 76% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 3% |
| Chile | 1 | 1% |
| India | 1 | 1% |
| Algeria | 1 | 1% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sachin Seth | Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sachin-seth-ca86 |
| Allison Mahalic | Chief Operating Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/allison-mahalic |
| Dave Lin | Operating Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dave-lin |
| Hinrich J. Woebcken | General Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hinrich-j-woebcken |
| Michael Potiker | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-potiker-e2a7 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Venus Aerospace | Venus Aerospace is a space company that provides an innovative approach to hypersonic transportation. Venus Aerospace is a startup aerospace company focused on engineering the future of hypersonic flight. We are making one-hour global transport possible to connect the world and make it safer.The company is an expert team of PhDs, rocketscientists, and engineers taking on the biggest challenges in aerospace at Mach 9 speed. The company also takes pride in being moms and dads, military veterans, and BBQ enthusiasts. | $91M | Series B | Jul 08, 2026 |  |
| CesiumAstro | CesiumAstro delivers communication systems for satellites, UAVs, launch vehicles, and other space or airborne platforms. Each of the company's products combines carefully selected COTS components with the traditional reliability necessary for aerospace systems. Its products enable connectivity between satellites, drones, planes, cars, andother mobile devices and generate electronically steerable beams of radio waves carrying information between the devices, and its software stitches the information together. | $270M | Series C | Feb 02, 2026 |  |
| CesiumAstro | CesiumAstro delivers communication systems for satellites, UAVs, launch vehicles, and other space or airborne platforms. Each of the company's products combines carefully selected COTS components with the traditional reliability necessary for aerospace systems. Its products enable connectivity between satellites, drones, planes, cars, andother mobile devices and generate electronically steerable beams of radio waves carrying information between the devices, and its software stitches the information together. | $270M | Series C | Feb 02, 2026 |  |
| AheadComputing | AheadComputing is a company that specializes in designing, licensing, and providing support for high-performance microprocessor cores and related technologies. | $30M | Seed | Jan 21, 2026 |  |
| Vatn Systems | Vatn Systems builds affordable autonomous underwater vehicles that act in cooperative swarms.At the core of Vatn's R&D efforts is advanced navigation software that is effective in GPS, vision, and comms compromised environments while reducing hardware costs. | $60M | Series A | Dec 10, 2025 |  |
| Impulse Space | Impulse Space develops spacecraft and propulsion systems that provide transportation and mobility services for payloads operating in space. The company focuses on moving, deploying, and hosting payloads across a range of orbital destinations, including low Earth orbit, geostationary orbit, and other deep-space trajectories. Its vehicle portfolioincludes Mira, a spacecraft designed for payload hosting, deployment, and orbital maneuvers, and Helios, a transfer vehicle intended to transport larger payloads between orbits. Impulse Space designs, manufactures, and tests much of its hardware in-house, covering spacecraft systems, propulsion components, and mission integration. The company supports commercial, civil, and government missions by providing in-space transportation and logistics capabilities after launch. | $300M | Series C | Jun 03, 2025 |  |
| Coreshell Technologies | Coreshell Technologies is accelerating the world’s transition to electric transportation and renewable energy by solving the key degradation issue in rechargeable batteries. Their breakthrough nanolayer thin-film coating technology protects batteries from degrading chemical reactions and is uniquely capable of seamlessly fitting into existingmanufacturing while producing the step change needed in the capacity, safety, and cost of batteries. |  |  | Mar 18, 2025 |  |
| Coreshell Technologies | Coreshell Technologies is accelerating the world’s transition to electric transportation and renewable energy by solving the key degradation issue in rechargeable batteries. Their breakthrough nanolayer thin-film coating technology protects batteries from degrading chemical reactions and is uniquely capable of seamlessly fitting into existingmanufacturing while producing the step change needed in the capacity, safety, and cost of batteries. | $24M | Series A | Mar 18, 2025 |  |
| Our Next Energy | Our Next Energy is a Michigan-based developer of innovative energy storage solutions with a vision to rapidly expand the world's access to sustainable power. |  |  | Mar 06, 2025 |  |
| Anello Photonics | Anello Photonics is a technology company developing a silicon photonic optical gyroscope to navigate, position, and motion track autonomous applications in challenging GPS-jammed and spoofed environments. The company's technology portfolio spans over 28 issued patents, and over 44 pending patents, and includes an AI-based sensor fusion engine.It serves the robotics, defense, construction, agriculture, and autonomous vehicles industries. |  | Series B | Nov 18, 2024 |  |

10 of 100 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Trousdale Ventures invest in?

Trousdale Ventures invests primarily in Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence and Software startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 100 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Trousdale Ventures's check size?

Trousdale Ventures typically joins rounds of $2.2M–$25M at Seed, $9.2M–$60M at Series A and $21M–$150M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Trousdale Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Trousdale Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Trousdale Ventures?

The team at Trousdale Ventures includes Sachin Seth (Partner), Allison Mahalic (Chief Operating Officer) and Dave Lin (Operating Partner), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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